Tapan Ray Chaudhuri
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Tapan Ray Chaudhuri Padma Bhushan is Professor Emeritus of Indian History and Civilization at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is a prominent Indian historian whose areas of research are especially but not limited to British Indian History, Indian Economic History and History of Bengal.
Tapan Ray Chaudhuri was educated at the Universities of Calcutta and Oxford. He received his PhD in History from the University of Calcutta. He was conferred upon the Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Oxford, University of Calcutta and University of Burdwan.
Tapan Ray Chaudhuri has held a number of academic appointments. He was Professor of History at University of Delhi, and University of Calcutta. He also served the Delhi School of Economics as Professor of Economic History and later as Director. He was also Deputy Director and Acting Director in the National Archives of India, New Delhi. Tapan Ray Chaudhuri was a Guest Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Collegio de Maxico, Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, University of Sydney and University of Perth. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
In addition to papers in scholarly journals, Tapan Ray Chaudhuri has written many books both solely and jointly with fellow historian Irfan Habib. His books include Bengal under Akbar and Jahangir, Jan Company in Coromandel, The Cambridge Economic History of India, Europe Reconsidered: Perception of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal, and Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities: Essay on India's Colonial and Post-colonial Experiences.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan; India's third highest civilian honour in 2007 in recognition to his contributions to history.
